Prins v. Coughlin’s Empirical Analysis
76 F.3d 504 · 1996
Citation profile
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 43 later decisions — most recently July 2019 · most notably Salahuddin v. Goord (2006), Thompson v. Carter (2002)
9 federal appellate · 2 district · 1 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on United States v. W. T. Grant Co. · Meachum v. Fano · Preiser v. Newkirk · United Transportation Union v. Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority · Johnson v. United States
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 43 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[A] transfer from a prison facility moots an action for injunctive relief against the transferring facility.”
3 later decisions quote this exact passage · from the majority“In order for a federal court to retain jurisdiction over a case, an actual controversy must exist at all stages of review, not merely at the time the complaint is filed.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Annucci“A case is deemed moot where the problem sought to be remedied has ceased, and where there is no reasonable expectation that the wrong will be repeated.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majoritye.g. Williams v. Annucci
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.